There is a bug with prograde command (and I think with the rest orientation commands but not sure - I am at work atm).When I press prograde (key '5'), the ship turns prograde but inverted. i.e. the degrees are +/-180,+/-190 +/-170 instead of 0, +10, -10 . This is confusing / disorientating when trying to understand if turning normal / anti-normal and radial / anti-radial.

When recording video, would it be possible to implement saving different elements (nebulae, planets, stars etc.) separatly so we can have much more control over picture balance while compositing and editing video?

What I mean is, instead of one .jpg or .tga that contains whole image per frame, we can have several .jpg or .tga files per frame that will contain only one rendered element, like i.e.

planet_0000.tgastars_0000.tganebula_0000.tga

etc. so when we combine these elements we get 3 layers in editing program so we can manipulate each element separate from the others.

Or... If this is not possible, would you consider an option to record camera movement so we can replicate this step by playing back that movement multiple times by turning on/off elements we want to render with each pass?

Sorry if I was not able to explain this properly, hope you'll understand what I wanted to say.

No offense, it's your program and you decide how to code it. But I've been running my win7 PCs with disabled page file for 5 or 6 years now that way. In all that time I had problems with two applications: First Battlefield 3. However, that was still with only 6 GB of RAM, not 16, so that could be the reason. Second, Space Engine.

So I think, it's more of a software issue and not a windows issue. In fact, I never have any crashes and I play a lot of 3D games, use 3 virtual machines at a time, etc.

Just wanted to ask if that SE behaviour is known. But it's no problem - I'll just turn on the page file before starting SE. (unfortunately don't have HDD any more)

First of all current SSDs can process hundreds of TiB before NAND dies completely. Regarding swap file. As you may have noticed even microsoft does not recommend disabling virtual memory. You should always leave at least 1 GiB. With 16 GiB of ram virtual memory won't be used very often with large chunks of data.